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Death toll from train derailment in Pakistan rises to 30 with 60 others injured, officials say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a train derailment in southern Pakistan rose to 30, with the number of injured to 60, and rescue operations were underway, officials said Sunday.Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train got derailed, and some overturned, near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah trapping many passengers, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho.Senior police officer, Abid Baloch — present at the scene of the accident— said that so far 30 bodies have been recovered while more than 60 people were injured, some critically. He added that the death toll may rise as rescue operations continue.Baloch said women and children were among the dead and injured.Local television showed rescue teams extracting women, children and elderly passengers from damaged and overturned cars. Some of the injured were lying on the ground crying for help while locals gave out water and food.Lakho, who is in charge of railways in the accident area, said rescue crews took injured pass...

Woman suffers life-threatening injuries when struck by vehicle in North York

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

A woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle in the Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue East area Saturday night.At approximately 10:19 p.m., a 27-year-old woman was driving a Mazda 3 sedan north on Leslie Street and struck a 27-year-old woman was crossing Leslie Street at Sheppard Avenue East.The victim was then transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The driver of vehicle remained at the scene. The investigation is ongoing by traffic services.Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact police.

'Monster hunters' wanted: New search for Loch Ness beast launching soon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

LONDON (AP) — The Loch Ness Centre in Scotland is calling for “budding monster hunters” and volunteers to join in what it dubs the largest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the 1970s.The visitor attraction said this week that modern technology such as drones that produces thermal images of the lake will “search the waters in a way that has never been done before.”The new surface water search for the fabled “Nessie,” planned for the weekend of Aug. 26 and 27, is billed as the largest of its kind since the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau studied the loch for signs of the mythical beast in 1972. Experts warn about ‘bed rotting’ trend The Loch Ness Centre is located at the old Drumnadrochit Hotel, where in 1933 manager Aldie Mackay reported spotting a “water beast” in the loch, the largest body of freshwater by volume in the United Kingdom and one of its deepest.The story kicked off an enduring worldwide fascination with finding the elusive monster, spawning hoaxes and hundreds of...

Elon Musk says his cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be streamed on X

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” face-off in late June. Zuckerberg is actually trained in mixed martial arts, and the CEO of Facebook's parent company Meta posted about completing his first jiu jitsu tournament earlier this year.“Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote in a post Sunday on the platform. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”Musk said earlier Sunday he was training for the fight by lifting weights.“Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work,” Musk wrote on X. You’ll need this piece of info to file a Facebook settlement claim Whether or not Musk and Zuckerberg actually make it to the ring has yet to be seen — especially as Musk often tweets about action prematurely or without following through. But even if their cage match agreement is all a ...

How climate change could make your home harder to insure

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

(NerdWallet) - Just about every part of the U.S. has felt the impact of climate change this summer, with drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires, flash flooding in the Northeast and dangerously high temperatures across the South. Extreme weather not only poses health risks but can also make it harder and more expensive to insure your home.Climate change and natural disasters“Climate change acts as an amplifier of hazards,” says Aris Papadopoulos, a resilience expert at Florida International University’s Extreme Events Institute. Climate change is making natural disasters both more frequent and more intense, he says. And that means more risk to your home.For example, a warmer atmosphere brings more evaporation, heavier rainfall and rising sea levels — all of which could increase your home’s chance of flooding.Meanwhile, in the Western U.S., wildfires are happening more often and burning longer, says Kimiko Barrett, a wildfire research and policy analyst at Headwaters Economics, a nonp...

Letters: Time to recalibrate to 32 hours a week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

No mergerRegarding the end of Fairview Sanford merger talks: Thank goodness!Carol Peine Raleigh, St. PaulThe writer is a former Fairview employee Recalibrate our labor marketIn (“Does it really matter who gets in to Harvard?”, Aug. 3), columnist Allison Schrager implies and I agree that it matters less whether you went to school and graduated from Harvard or from Texas A&M than it does if you never had the chance to go to college at all. In either case, the college graduate has a pretty decent chance of financial success in their lives. At the other end of the economic spectrum, however, the chances for financial success are dismal, and that’s where the real problem with income inequality lies in America.The upper class has been growing, pulling members up from the middle class. Unfortunately, the lower class has also expanded, and is now around 30% of the population. This is where we have the greatest problem with income inequality in the U.S.Some of thos...

White Abarrio runs "race of his life" to take the Whitney Stakes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- It's one of the most highly anticipated days on the Saratoga Race Course calendar: Whitney Day. Saturday marked the 96th running of the Grade One Whitney Stakes, and the race for four-year-olds and upward offered a mix of storylines.Beginning with the favorite of the six-horse field: Cody's Wish, the six-horse, which closed at 2-5 odds. Cody's Wish is the namesake of 17-year-old Cody Dorman, who was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and is unable to walk or speak.Dorman and his family made the trip from Richmond, Kentucky to Saratoga to witness first-hand Cody's Wish put his grade one race win streak of four to the test.But Cody's Wish got out to an awkward start and the field took advantage, namely White Abarrio, the five, which was jockeyed by Irad Ortiz, Jr.White Abarrio pushed ahead of the three, Giant Game, at the top of the homestretch, and never looked back. He opened up a nearly six-length lead by the finish, pulling off a 10-1 upset for ...

Veteran Honors Fallen: Afghanistan Tribute

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

WENTZVILLE Mo -- Today is the 12-year anniversary of a helicopter being shot down in Afghanistan. It killed 31 soldiers, including a dog. An area Air Force veteran knew three of those men. This morning, he's paying tribute in his own special way.

Car set on fire with man inside in Green Meadows, LAPD investigating 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

A car with a man sleeping inside was set on fire early Sunday morning. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East 102nd Street. The suspect, who has not been identified, walked up to the man's car as he was sleeping and threw a flammable liquid inside, causing the car to ignite, police said.Video footage from the scene shows the car completely engulfed in flames, and once firefighters were able to put out the blaze, all that was left of the vehicle were charred metal fragments. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East 102nd Street in Los Angeles on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. (OnScene TV) According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East 102nd Street in Los Angeles on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. (OnScene TV) According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the arson occurred around 1:30 a.m....

Scuffle breaks out between striking hotel workers, security guards in Santa Monica 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:24 GMT

A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards broke out on Saturday in Santa Monica. Video shows several picketers falling to the ground, and another man was seen being yanked back across the picket line. A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) A physical altercation between striking hotel workers and security guards breaks out in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (Community Dept. of UNITE HERE Local 11) The hotel workers were on stri...